Both Imports, Exports Down for September Soviet Secret service, OGP 2,000 prisoners to overcome the age of labour in the Baltic island port of Dagoe, where building has begun, reports from Tallinn said yesterday. Dagoe Island is the site of one of the naval bases ceded to Russia by the Estonian Government by the Russo-Estonian Mutual Assistance Pact,—United Press.
London, Oct. 27.
Special interest is being attached to the Board of Trade returns for September—the first month of the war.
Imports totalled £50,000,000, showing a decrease of 33 per cent. as compared with September 1938. Exports amounted to £23,000,000, or 42 per cent, less than during the same month last year.
One of the principal reasons for the decline of imports in September, says IReuter's Lobby correspondent, was the fact that the Mediterranean was closed for the first three weeks of the War. This also, he added, had an an effect on exports.
In the last ten days, however, the correspondent continues, the position of shipping has steadily improved, as has the position regarding export licences. The Board of Trade is having discussions with representatives of various industries interested in export trade, and negotiations are progressing favourably.—Reuter.
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